"The Information"
by seemingly always-in-the-running for major awards (Pulitzer, National Book Award) science writer James Gleick may be the 2010 decade's version of Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal...
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Cooking Tiger Stew
Another call last night. Seems I've been recalcitrant in my check-writing and had snubbed the alma mater of the bucks I'd annually been giving them. Like most dottering alumni, I have an affection...
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Tigers & Lions & Bears
Oh My!While I'm on the Tiger jag, let me note that aside from the plethora of things called/labeled/titled "Tiger", there seems to be an overabundance of bands that have "Wolf" or "Bear" in their...
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Mid 1970's Wary Look
Looking at back of some of my folks' photos brought me to that time when, on at least an annual basis, people would go to a photographer and have their pictures taken professionally. Usually the...
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Montreal, Florida, Europe
So, Jerry Garcia was still alive and the Dead were touring during those summers in the late 1970's and early 1980's when work was plentiful and jobs were always interesting. Bruce was still just a...
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Hairy Bastard
#1 in the Passport Series, "Hey! I'd arrest me too". Late Eighties, hirsuteness (and lack of combs) still in full display. The situation was a tad bumpy at this point as the idealism and pinata...
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Early 1990's Hardly Leaving the Country
In hopes of overseas travel in the early '90's, #2 in my passport series, "Hey! I'd arrest me too", was taken. Perhaps it was a good thing that no such trip took place while my papers were headed by...
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Sir, Please Step to the Side.....
So, here's #3 in the Passport Series, "Hey! I'd arrest me too." (#1 is here while #2 is here) Just to make sure that this photo can receive full credit for originality, it pre-dated this photo by a...
View ArticleThere Stands The Glass
Just a short note about a music blog I happened along on, There Stands the Glass. It's been around since November, 2005. Simply a well-done, well-updated, Kansas City based music scene blog!...
View ArticleSome Issues
As one says when dealing with opinions on nasty subjects, especially thoughts that run counter to "legal" interpretations, I have "some issues" with the news that Ante Gotovina has been convicted of...
View ArticleDissing the Hipster...
..continues. Clipping a hipster is now as easy as those fish in a barrel we always hear about. Just a pause here...has anyone ever seen live fish in a barrel?Seems that David Foster Wallace is...
View Article281 Times
... is the total of attempts that Roger Ebert has filed in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption weekly contest before finally winning. Geeeezzz! I entered the 1st one and then followed with an inconsistent...
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Galactic Tuneage
For a limited time over @ Relix, you can listen to the stream of the entire new live recording by Galactic to be released next Tuesday. The Other Side of Midnight: Live in New Orleans was recorded at...
View ArticlePhotos!? We Don't Need No Stinkin'....
I'm with Mr. Gourevitch on this. There is no purpose on releasing any photos of the dead Osama bin Laden. Proof of his demise? Photos would be no proof as evidenced by the fake photos that came out...
View ArticleEunuchs & Tax Collection
For an insightful and throat-clutching synopsis on a short history of the USA and Pakistan's mutual "arrangement", this NewYorker article by Lawrence Wright, is quite helpful.An excerpt:"In a country...
View ArticleLet's Call the Whole Thing Off
So, needing a clarification on what's the difference between a lawyer and a judge?Per today's piece in Writer's Almanac, a lawyer is an alleged learned professional who can argue that a tomato is a...
View Article@ Yankee Stadium, You Can't
...it seems, bring a Kindle, Nook, or any other e-reader. Add that to the ever-lenghtening list of things you can't bring and it seems that the only thing you'll be allowed to bring is boatloads of...
View ArticleCaught!
Finally!Please read some of the comments attached to the Guardian article. Quite a few appear (well, they DON'T appear) with the following message, "This comment was removed by a moderator because it...
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Summer's Almost Here..
The Sedin Brothers a.k.a. the Dropsy TwinsJune 21st is almost upon us. I can tell as the Finals (finally) of the Stanley Cup are taking place. Not sure how much I'll be watching what with no Devils,...
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Yukon Goes (and goes for some more) Fishing
Well, just a pointer to a blogger that happens to be related. Da Son is out west running into various folks visiting his neck of the woods, including a fellow who was RV-ing and had inquired of him as...
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Value Subtraction Layers
(Photo from http://www.bastardette.blogspot.com/)...will be the buzzword for the next few years as shell companies disguising reverse mergers come undone. Interesting article in today's NYT re. Muddy...
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NHL & Asterix
From the Guardian article, an excerpt follows."The role of helmet protection has been stressed by the authors, especially in view of the fact that strap-fixation should have been taken more seriously...
View ArticleSeriously, I'm Not Dead...
Dead Yet. Battery re-charging has taken much longer than anticipated and reading some books this past Summer has been a delightful pleasure.Appreciation goes out to Whisky Prajer for checking up on...
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Those that do.....
(From New Yorker issue of April 7, 2008)This blogging stuff really isn't so much about accomplishments (though epoch-defining deeds would certainly make the Internet ink flow faster) than it is about...
View ArticleYo! Win Somehting!
Just wanted to let anyone visiting here know that not only can you read the entries but you can click and win a Flip! Just go here (it's a safe site, guaranteed), check out the fly-fishing video, post...
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